'Stand Your Ground' Linked to Increase in Homicides

[krispos42]

15. Meh.

The article is full of qualifications and maybes. The graph is suppose to be adjusted for "other factors", but we'll see.

A slight uptick is also not blood running the streets and mass-casualty events over a parking space at WalMart. The rational thought of this and other laws would that it would either provide a minor, hard-to-quantify decrease in crime, or a minor, hard-to-quantify increase in crime.



SYG laws are typically going to be in states run by Republicans, which generally suck in terms of education, employment, wages, mental and physical health coverage, law enforcement, and ideas such as maybe wifebeaters should go to prison for long periods of time.